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8/27 - Umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting Thursday after Major League Baseball, guardian of America’s most traditional sport, reversed its decades-long opposition to instant replay.

8/19 - Curt Schilling says he’s leaning “very heavily” toward retirement and is waiting until spring training approaches to see if he wants to try to pitch again.

Rangers All-Star second baseman Ian Kinsler was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a sports hernia, and could be headed for season-ending surgery.

Greg Maddux is headed back to the Los Angeles Dodgers. San Diego and Los Angeles agreed to a trade that puts the 353-game winner in a pennant race again.

8/11 - Tampa Bay gets franchise record 71st win - Tampa Bay bettered its previous best record of 70-92 in 2004. The Rays improved to 71-46 by taking three of four in Seattle and own a 4 1/2 -game lead over Boston in the AL East, their largest advantage since July 6.

8/5 - NY Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain will be examined by an orthopedic surgeon s on Wednesday after undergoing an MRI on his ailing right shoulder.

7/30 - On Tuesday, the Angels made the kind of deadline blockbuster they're often accused of never making when they traded first baseman Casey Kotchman and pitching prospect Stephen Marek to Atlanta for the right to run first baseman Mark Teixeira out there as their first baseman for the next two months.

7/29 - Tim Hudson thought the Atlanta Braves’ medical staff was joking about ligament damage in his pitching elbow. The right-handed Hudson went on the season ending disabled list Monday after an MRI found the damage. The Braves also placed slugger Chipper Jones on the 15-day disabled list with a hamstring injury, yet another blow for a team that just a few days ago had still hoped to contend in the NL East.

If the New York Yankees are going to earn a 14th consecutive playoff berth, they’ll have to do it without Jorge Posada. The five-time All-Star catcher will have season-ending surgery on his right shoulder, ending his attempt to return to the lineup for New York’s postseason push.

7/21 - Ray Durham wore a Giants uniform for the last time, then packed up his locker and went to join the Milwaukee Brewers on the other side of the ballpark before leaving town with his new team. San Francisco traded the veteran second baseman to the Brewers for two minor leaguers, with both clubs waiting until after the teams played Sunday to announce the swap. That, in fact, was per Durham’s request as he didn’t want to suit up for his first game for Milwaukee against the Giants.